Newmont Stage, BMO Theatre Centre until October 30, 2022
Commissioned by the Arts Club and directed jointly by Ashlie Corcoran and Omari Newton, Redbone Coonhound is as good-looking and great sounding as, well, an actual Redbone Coonhound.
Emerjade Simms and Kwesi Ameyaw in Redbone Coonhound. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Firehall Arts Centre until October 30, 2022
Just why are blueberries assholes, according to playwright/stand-up performer TJ Dawe? Get the answer to that question – and much more – in TJ Dawe’s latest show, Blueberries Are Assholes.
The Cultch Historic Theatre until October 23, 2022
If ever a play screamed out for audience intervention, Bad Parent is one. And in removing the fourth wall and having the actors, Raugi Yu and Josette Jorge, address the audience directly, playwright Ins Choi leaves the door wide open for us to jump in and holler, “Nooooooo” or “We hear you” or “Hang in there.”
Josette Jorge as Norah/Nora and Raugi Yu as Charles/Dale in Bad Parent. Credit: Dahlia Katz
At Pacific Theatre until October 15, 2022
“Between goodness and me, there is a country highway running past an orchard. Wanting to be good is wanting to get to an apple tree to pick an apple while I’m on the other side of the highway.” This is how Fanny Britt’s play, set in 2018 in the fictional village of Bienveillance in rural Quebec, begins.
Charlie Gallant as Gilles Jean in Benevolence. Credit: Moonrider Productions